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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Gusto

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AGusto offers payroll, benefits and compliance capabilities. Gusto is scaled for small to mid-sized businesses, and emphasizes an easy to use interface.

    $49

    per month

    QuotaPath

    Score8.4 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    QuotaPath automates the commission process, helping revenue teams manage and track variable pay. Teams that use QuotaPath gain real-time visibility into commissions and forecasted earnings.

    $250

    per month per user

    Pricing
    GustoQuotaPath
    Editions & Modules
    Simple: A streamlined set of automatic payroll features and benefits integrations
    $49/month + $6/mo per person
    per month
    Plus: Comprehensive payroll, benefits, and HR tools for employers building a great place to work
    $80/month + $12/mo per person
    per month
    Premium: Scalable payroll and benefits, expert HR, and dedicated support for the complex needs of growing teams
    $180/month + $22/mo per person
    per month
    Essential
    $25
    per month (billed annually) per user
    Growth
    $35
    per month (billed annually) per user
    Premium
    $50
    per month (billed annually) per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    GustoQuotaPath
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsGusto offers three pricing plans for payroll, benefits, and HR.QuotaPath has three pricing editions, each with a platform fee that includes the all-in cost of QuotaPath for teams with up to five users. (This includes user access, ongoing support, integration implementations, and is billed annually. Any users beyond the first five have a per-seat cost relative to their associated tier.) The Growth tier offers a free trial.
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    Features
    GustoQuotaPath
    Payroll Management
    Comparison of Payroll Management features of Gusto and QuotaPath
    Feature
    Gusto
    9.1
    611 Ratings
    9% above category average
    QuotaPath
    -
    Ratings
    Pay calculation9.5587 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for external payroll vendors8.58 Ratings00 Ratings
    Benefit plan administration8.7417 Ratings00 Ratings
    Direct deposit files9.7592 Ratings00 Ratings
    Salary revision and increment management9.0462 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reimbursement management9.0196 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sales ICM
    Comparison of Sales ICM features of Gusto and QuotaPath
    Feature
    Gusto
    -
    Ratings
    QuotaPath
    9.7
    23 Ratings
    21% above category average
    Sales compensation plan creation00 Ratings9.823 Ratings
    Complex sales crediting00 Ratings9.819 Ratings
    Sales compensation process automation00 Ratings9.922 Ratings
    Incentive auditing/regulation compliance00 Ratings9.618 Ratings
    Sales compensation dashboards & forecasting00 Ratings9.823 Ratings
    Incentive modeling00 Ratings9.520 Ratings
    Agile incentive strategy00 Ratings9.716 Ratings
    ICM mobile visibility00 Ratings9.414 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    GustoQuotaPath
    Small Businesses
    Patriot Payroll
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    APS
    Score5.7 out of 10
    Everstage
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    ADP Streamline Payroll
    Score6.1 out of 10
    CaptivateIQ
    Score9.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    GustoQuotaPath
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (633 ratings)
    9.8
    (23 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (14 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.4
    (457 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    4.3
    (27 ratings)
    9.9
    (11 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    GustoQuotaPath
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Gusto
    I think Gusto is well-suited for any business, big or small, to use for accounting purposes. It makes it easy to keep track of many things, such as pay stubs, benefits, paid time off, and much more. Where I could see it being less useful is maybe for enterprise businesses with way more employees.
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    QuotaPath
    Well suited for getting your sales team visibility on their efforts, it’s great for showing how and why commissions payout as they do with each deal. Adjustments can also be made very quickly on the backend if needed. It’s straightforward and quick to set up and doesn’t require much training, which is very good for smaller-end businesses and sales forces. It doesn’t work well with more nuanced deals that may age multiple pay points or for larger sales forces, and some custom CRMs will have trouble or be incompatible.
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    Pros
    Gusto
    • New employee/contractor onboarding - all the documents are stored and easily accessible (the same goes for off-boarding).
    • A one-click option for syncing hours worked with payroll.
    • The option to run payroll on auto-pilot.
    • Ensuring I'm tax compliant with the states we have employees in.
    • Always having digital records of payroll runs.
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    QuotaPath
    • We don’t have to calculate commissions in Excel anymore! It takes a fraction of the time it used to calculate commissions. Saves about 1-2 days on month end close. I like that it is easy for me and reps to drill down and see the calculations of their payouts. Reps can see calcs all month long instead of having to wait until the end of the month, so acts as a motivator. Sales managers can manage their direct reports better.
    • When I first started using QP, I was not thrilled with the quota attainment reporting for dollars, percent, and team management. I’m glad that they added leaderboards and are working on better reporting. I like the UX and UI of the whole software.
    • I like being able to export the following easily to Excel – resolved payouts for all payouts, payouts by rep, and Ledger (ASC 606) info.
    • Admins can request that reps acknowledge their plans through QP, which helps with compliance and ensures we are in agreement with calculations. I like that they are adding a docusign feature.
    • You can easily adjust earnings if a correction is needed, even after the month is closed. Just make sure you reverse from the end of the process (i.e. undo in ledger, undo the resolved payout, delete the unresolved payout, un-approve the deal).
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    Cons
    Gusto
    • Digital compliance tools for remote teams
    • Gusto upsold us labor law posters, but I later found them available for free online. Since we’re a fully remote team, I had to manually download and distribute them digitally. It would be much more efficient if Gusto offered free, auto-distributed digital posters tailored to remote compliance.
    • Benefits setup is unintuitive for startups
    • While our rep was helpful, navigating the benefits system felt complex and not tailored to early-stage companies. More guided flows or simplified options for small, remote startups would be a big help.
    • Limited dashboard customization for remote workflows
    • As a fully online company, we’d benefit from dashboard options that highlight relevant tools for remote operations—like compliance tracking, digital communications, or onboarding checklists.
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    QuotaPath
    • More workspace roles with the ability to customize what each user is able to do. Currently, there's only member and team manager. The team manager currently has too much power and we want to remove some of the things they're able to do like approve deals.
    • When you sync a deal from the CRM, you can override the earnings but you cannot override the field value you're syncing over. It would be great if that was possible.
    • When you want to exclude a deal, you have to go in the filters and add a rule to exclude the ID. It would be better if there's an option to reject deals in certain paths as an approver.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Gusto
    Unless they break it, I'm never leaving. It's just too easy. Gusto is also really affordable, and for what I pay, it's worth having the historical record within the system. I like that I can go back and pull up W2's for year's past. This sort of easy access reporting, has been helpful especially when getting reports for PPP loans.
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    QuotaPath
    I don't have buying decision but we have input on the software or solutions we use and this has been a game changer to review our commissions. Quota Path makes it very easy to ensure we are on target. Saves us a lot of time compared to using spreadsheets
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    Usability
    Gusto
    Gusto is pretty user-friendly, and the website is easy to navigate overall. They also offer good, responsive customer support and have helpful articles available when needed. So far, I have not had any major issues with the platform and am overall very happy with it.
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    QuotaPath
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Gusto
    Gusto's customer service has really deteriorated lately and they seem to have really changed their focus. It used to be when you called you were routed to an individual who knew about payroll, benefits, reporting, etc. but now you get someone who seems to have not received the correct training. My last call about a dismissal payroll took me over an hour of my time and the person still could not help me and finally transferred me to someone else.
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    QuotaPath
    I ran into some issues with setting up an MRR earning path. Their customer service team was readily available to assist, provide guidance and get their hands on our setup, which made getting this up and running much easier. Also (shame on me), I missed a couple of calls with my CSM, Daniel, but he never got frustrated with my absence. In fact, he was always able to reschedule and was flexible with my schedule — when we were able to connect, he was a major, major help.
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    Implementation Rating
    Gusto
    Reach out to support immediately if you are having trouble setting up Gusto. Rather than being confused and trying to figure it out yourself, it's much better to talk to someone who knows what they are doing. Save yourself time and frustration and reach out to support
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    QuotaPath
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Gusto
    While I never actually got to the point of trying out ADP, I had several conversations with an ADP representative, and it seemed that they would be able to provide the same (if not less) level of service for a significantly higher price
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    QuotaPath
    Xactly Incent was very difficult to configure. And UI wasn't very friendly. Spiff and CaptivateIQ had a good UI but the learning and coding required was going to be too much for the short window of time before implementation was due. QuotaPath was able to build our comp plans in less than a month so we could focus on the necessary configuration of data in Salesforce.
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    Return on Investment
    Gusto
    • Time tracking + payroll calculations me 30-60 minutes every time I run payroll.
    • Integrated workers' comp, so I didn't have to find an outside carrier and get quotes—it's all taken care of in the same platform.
    • Improved employee experience with onboarding.
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    QuotaPath
    • Reduce commission calculations from a full day to minutes
    • Provides both managers and reps with insight into their earnings
    • Highly flexible plan structuring that allowed us to pay based on our objectives
    • While saving money on the elimination of manual commission processing (+/12c days per year) I believe the real payback has been the way it has helped us to better incentivize and motivate our reps
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Gusto Screenshots

    Screenshot of Gusto's automated payrollScreenshot of the time-off tracking interfaceScreenshot of the source of truth for HR data

    QuotaPath Screenshots

    Screenshot of the scalable team workflows that automate commission management, with task prioritization and success insights.Screenshot of the home experience for reps to create ownership for their compensation, where they can see updates from the last time they logged in (including deals with commissions earned), understand how they are performing, and forecast earnings based on their pipeline.Screenshot of quota attainment tracking and forecasting, to understand how individual reps and teams are pacing toward goals, with leaderboards to motivate teams with friendly competition.Screenshot of payout schedules for earned amounts, with the option to split commissions into multiple payouts with installments, and explanations of clawbacks to catch overpayments. Reps can cross-reference their earnings and know exactly what will be on their paycheck.Screenshot of the AI-Powered Plan Builder, which enables quick setups and adjustments to build and execute your comp plans in QuotaPath. Describe your plan in a few words, or upload a PDF of your plan, and allow AI to configure it for QuotaPath.Screenshot of the self-serve integrations to connect data, with CRM connections like HubSpot and Salesforce and invoicing systems like Quickbooks and Stripe.